Thu, March 27, 2025

[ Thu, Mar 27th 2025 ]: Bloomberg

Trump Signs Order Targeting Law Firm Jenner and Block

President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting the law firm of Jenner and Block over the role of a former partner at the firm who aided onetime special counsel Robert Mueller's investigations.

[ Thu, Mar 27th 2025 ]: Tagtik

The first agreement between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States

Stopping hostilities in the Black Sea: that's the principle agreement reached between Washington, Kiev, and Moscow. Furthermore, the American presidency announced in a statement the implementation of measures to monitor compliance with a ceasefire limited to energy infrastructure.

[ Thu, Mar 27th 2025 ]: Reuters

Australia PM Albanese says election 'imminent' as government rushes to pass tax cuts bill

Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday he planned to call an election "imminently" as his centre-left government rushed through the parliament a bill on fresh tax cuts in a bid to lift support and win back aggrieved voters.

[ Thu, Mar 27th 2025 ]: MSN

Donald Trump places 25% tariffs on auto imports to the US

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[ Thu, Mar 27th 2025 ]: pix11

Pix on Politics Daily: Rikers Island Future

Welcome to PIX on Politics Daily with Dan Mannarino, where we break down the day's political news, headlines, and issues that matter most to you through in-depth conversation. Join us daily on PIX11 Plus streaming at 12:30 p.

[ Thu, Mar 27th 2025 ]: AOL

Should Elon Musk Ditch Politics To Save Tesla? Experts Weigh In

Elon Musk's politics are making waves, and Tesla's stock price has plummeted. Experts weigh in on whether stepping back could save the brand.

[ Thu, Mar 27th 2025 ]: dw

Zelenskyy urges US and allies to stand strong against Russia

The Ukrainian president said NATO is his country's best security guarantee but that the US is "not ready" for Ukraine to join. Zelenskyy also called out the US special envoy for "frequently" repeating Russian propaganda.
Wed, March 26, 2025

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: WBKO

LIST: Gov. Andy Beshear signs bills targeting education and economic growth

Today is the final veto day before the General Assembly convenes for the last two days of the 2025 regular session.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: KHOU

Following in footsteps of President Trump, Texas Senate passes government efficiency bill

Texas SB14 would create an efficiency office to streamline state regulations, reduce unnecessary rules and improve public access to regulatory information.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: katv

Pine Bluff mayor addresses leadership changes, emphasizes transparency and new direction

We're hearing more from Pine Bluff City officials about what's behind the changes at the police and fire departments.Mayor Vivian Flowers has said that the firi

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: WCAX

Schumer says job cuts and office closures will impact Social Security

New York Senator Chuck Schumer says New Yorker seniors will soon feel the impacts of cuts to the Social Security Administration by the Trump administration.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: PoliticsHome

Welfare Cuts Will Push 250,000 People Into Poverty, Says Government Impact Assessment

Labour's welfare reforms will see an additional 250,000 people - including 50,000 children - pushed into relative poverty, government analysis has

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: Healthbeat

Federal government rescinds more than $100 million from NYC Health Department

The Department of Health and Human Services abruptly terminated grants for infectious disease prevention and surveillance work in New York City. The grant terminations come as the agency faces pressing public health threats,

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: Slate

Congress Isn't Just Standing By As Trump Abuses His Power. It's Doing Something Far Worse.

As Donald Trump breaks the bounds of his legal authority and collapses the constitutional separation of powers between ostensibly co-equal branches of government, time after time it is the judges who've stepped in to impose limits.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: KLCC

Waldport area fire district says it will need to lay off three firefighters and one administrator if levy fails May 20

Union firefighters at Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue were given notice last week that potential layoffs loom for the cash-strapped agency.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: MSNBC

Maddow Blog | HHS makes an unfortunate choice to oversee unnecessary study on vaccines and autism

The Trump administration could've chosen anyone to conduct its study on vaccines and autism. It settled on someone who's apparently already made up his mind.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: Deadline

GOP Lawmakers Warn PBS And NPR CEOs They Want To Defund Public Media - Update

NPR and PBS were in the spotlight at a House hearing this morning before the Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee, as Republican grilled the CEOs of the public broadcasting outlets over alleged biases.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: LAist

What immigration enforcement at Columbia and other universities means for SoCal campuses

A recent string of high-profile immigration enforcement actions at Columbia and other universities has sparked fear and caution among some students and faculty in Southern California — especially those who aren't U.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: HuffPost

DOGE's Pursuit Of Sensitive Unemployment Data Sparks Alarm

Experts fear the Trump administration will wield the information - including workers' addresses and Social Security numbers - in its immigration crackdown.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: eNCA

Government to lift ban on cannabis and hemp products

JOHANNESBURG - Government plans to withdraw its ban on the sale of cannabis and hemp products. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced this on Tuesday after consultation with Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: NDTV

NDTV Yuva Conclave: Raghav Chadha On Harvard, Politics, And Life With Parineeti Chopra

Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha, who recently attended a leadership programme at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) in Cambridge, described the experience as a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" that rekindled his passion for learning.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: MSN

Florida's Mike Waltz and Marco Rubio on text chain that included journalist. What we know

The app also allows users to automatically blur faces of people in photos to protect identities. The app was intended to defend users against government and corporate surveillance. You have to sign up with a phone number to create an account, but can hide ...

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: Euronews

Tiktok, Meta, Google and X invited to Romanian election stress test

The November presidential vote has been annulled due to attempts to influence votes through social media. View on euronews

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: KPBS

Federal workers ordered back to office find shortages of desks, Wi-Fi and toilet paper

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: Zawya

Justice Malala to unpack South Africa's economic and political future

Beyond domestic policy, South Africa's global positioning and trade relationships remain vital to its industrial future

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: CNN

Loathing for Europe, love for emoji and other things we learned from the Signal snafu

The most important part of the Signal snafu remains the fact that the secretary of defense posted sensitive information about a forthcoming strike in a Signal chat organized by the national security adviser that inadvertently included The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: Reuters

Explainer-Russia gets US to agree to help lift curbs on food, fertiliser and shipping

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Tuesday the United States had agreed to help it lift a series of Western sanctions and restrictions on food, fertiliser and shipping companies as preconditions for a maritime security deal in the Black Sea.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: ANI

BRS MLC K Kavitha K Kavitha demands Sonia Gandhi fulfill Congress' gold and cash promise in Telangana

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLCs today staged a protest at the Telangana Legislative Council to highlight unfulfilled promises made by the Congress Government--like providing 10 grams of gold to eligible women for their marriage.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: Politico

What the Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mega-rallies are really about

The two progressives are bringing energy to a party that has been exhausted and furious in the second Trump era.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: Alternet

'I am going through hell': Job loss, mental health and the fate of federal workers

The National Institutes of Health employee said she knew things would be difficult for federal workers after Donald Trump was elected. But she never imagined it would be like this. Focused on Alzheimer's and other dementia research,

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: Metro

What time is Rachel Reeves' spring statement and how can I watch it live?

Rachel Reeves is preparing to make her spring statement in the House of Commons later today. This is the second-most important economic announcement from the government of the year, behind only the budget in autumn.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: Audacy

Canadians Say Tariffs Cause 'Chaos and Confusion' on Both Sides of the Border

Canadians say tariffs cause chaos and confusion on both sides of the border. WBEN spoke to Fort Erie residents to get reaction to the trade war

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: SFGate

'Fear and anger': California town halls are not going well for Democrats, either

While Democrats host events, California Republicans have largely avoided facing their constituents. The town hall furor comes as Musk, an unelected campaign donor to Trump, moves to fire hundreds of thousands of public workers and cut funding to federal agencies like the National Park Service and the National Weather Service.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: Bizcommunity

Justice Malala to unpack South Africa's economic and political future at exclusive AATF breakfast event

South Africa's economic recovery and industrial growth depend on both policy reform and business innovation. Few commentators are better placed to explore these challenges than Justice Malala. The award-winning author,

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: Governing

Medicaid Cuts Could Cost States Billions in Tax Revenue and a Million Jobs

Much has been said about the health consequences of severe Medicaid cuts. A new analysis from the Commonwealth Fund considers the jobs and revenue that states could lose.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: Cryptopolitan

Trump demands that the Treasury Department 'modernize and centralize' its payment system

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: Axios

Social Security: How it works, and why it's the "third rail" of U.S. politics

The Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE)'s incursion into the Social Security Administration is threatening to slow or even unravel the system that provided income to about 73 million Americans last month.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: Washingtonian

Government Efficiency Apparently Involves Texting Your War Plans to the Press, a Lobbyist Bought JD Vance's House, and Our Food Critic Says It's Fine to Order the Butter ...

Good morning. Cloudy and perhaps gusty (yes, again) with a high around 63 today, and a low around 40 tonight with a chance of showers. Some of the trees around the Tidal Basin are "showing lots of open blossoms,

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: BBC

Trump has blown up the world order - and left Europe's leaders scrabbling

This is the gravest crisis for Western security since the end of World War Two. So which nations will step forward as the new world order emerges?

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: IOL

Government backs off from banning cannabis edibles

After initial confusion over the government's ban on cannabis and hemp-derived foodstuffs, President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a withdrawal of the ban, offering hope to entrepreneurs and businesses in the sector.

[ Wed, Mar 26th 2025 ]: OurQuadCities

Iowa bill to remove DEI programs in government moves forward

A plan to remove diversity, equity and inclusion programs in Iowa government cleared the State Senate. Senators voted 34-15 in favor of Senate File 507. The move would prohibit cities and counties from establishing or maintaining a diversity,
Tue, March 25, 2025

[ Tue, Mar 25th 2025 ]: who13

Iowa bill prohibiting diversity, equity and inclusion advanced by Senate Republican majority

The Iowa Senate took up a bill on Tuesday that aims to get rid of diversity, equity and inclusion offices or hirings in local government in the state. The bill says that a

[ Tue, Mar 25th 2025 ]: Mediaite

New Trump Order Targets Firm That Once Employed 'Unethical' MSNBC Pundit: 'Career Has Been Rooted in Weaponized Government'

President Donald Trump fired off another executive order targeting a law firm on Tuesday, this time taking aim at Jenner & Block because it once employed MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann. Weissmann first came to public prominence as a member of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team,

[ Tue, Mar 25th 2025 ]: ITV

Reeves set to announce spending cuts in Spring Statement, promising 'security and national renewal'

The chancellor will deliver a speech in Parliament on Wednesday, in which she's expected to outline spending cuts in order to stick to her fiscal rules. | ITV National News

[ Tue, Mar 25th 2025 ]: Fortune

Trump will be 'pretty much satisfied' with Elon Musk's DOGE cuts in a few months, he tells Cabinet: 'Our country was riddled with fat, and we're getting rid of the fat'

"It's not necessarily a very popular thing to do… but it's something that has to be done," Trump said in a meeting with Cabinet members and Elon Musk on Monday.

[ Tue, Mar 25th 2025 ]: RealClearPolitics

Hemingway: Censorship Groups Produce Widely Used Tools To Silence Media That Fight False Narratives

The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway addressed a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing today on the Censorship Industrial Complex. MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: For freedom of speech to mean anything beyond the theoretical,

[ Tue, Mar 25th 2025 ]: CNN

Trump's pick to lead Social Security promises quick customer services fixes amid agency meltdown

President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the troubled Social Security Administration told senators Tuesday that he would swiftly improve the agency's customer service and slash its payment error rate,

[ Tue, Mar 25th 2025 ]: dw

German government building meets obstacles

The parties seeking to build a new coalition government under Friedrich Merz are making slow progress in their negotiations. Immigration and taxes are the main sticking points.

Loathing for Europe, love for emoji and other things we learned from the Signal snafu

The most important part of the Signal snafu remains the fact that the secretary of defense posted sensitive information about a forthcoming strike in a Signal chat organized by the national security adviser that inadvertently included The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg.

The article from MSN discusses a significant data breach involving the messaging app Signal, where a misconfiguration led to the exposure of user data. This incident revealed several insights into user behavior and preferences. Notably, there was a clear disdain for Europe among some users, as evidenced by the frequent use of negative sentiments towards the continent. Conversely, there was a widespread love for emojis, with users frequently incorporating them into their communications. The breach also highlighted the use of Signal for discussing sensitive topics, showcasing the app's appeal for privacy-conscious individuals. Additionally, the article touches on the implications of such data leaks, emphasizing the importance of robust security measures in digital communication platforms.

Read the Full CNN Article at:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/loathing-for-europe-love-for-emoji-and-other-things-we-learned-from-the-signal-snafu/ar-AA1BE3Nv